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Pronunciation /həbɪtʃʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n//həˌbɪtʃəˈweɪʃ(ə)n//həbɪtjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

She treats this habituation as entirely negative, since it's why we lose our appreciation of once-new pleasures.

Despite the apparent habituation resulting from years of living with abuse, as the joke implies, the pain has not gone unnoticed.

As the deforestation continues due to the increase in world population, the effect upon habituation is often significant.

Generally speaking, liturgical practices form persons in the same ways that any practice becomes formative: through habituation and extensive training until the practice becomes part or who one is.

Instead, lower level processes, such as habituation, may contribute.

I guess it will make for an interesting test of habituation.

Perhaps it's not surprising to find evidence of taming cats and their habituation with human settlements at such an early date.

We noticed earlier that habituation is not the end but the beginning of the progress toward virtue.

However, taken together, the large number of empirical similarities suggests strongly that common processes contribute to habituation and extinction.

The concept of social persons, she argues, dialectically links subjective interiority to the social world by habituation.

The drop in uptake and habituation is due to the decline in role of government/decmocratic institutions in society, aided and abetted by dominant political parties.

If habituation were solely responsible for extinction, then conditions during extinction and not during acquisition would alter the speed of extinction.

However, in July 2001 data collection on the first mixed-species group had to be discontinued because of high levels of poaching in the area, which impeded the progress of habituation and systematic data collection.

Social factors include habituation to sex with the partner, and unhappiness with the relationship.

This habituation prevents them from seeing new opportunities for growth.

The same excitatory process also appears to temporarily reverse long-term habituation.

This can lead to habituation, which in the long run can cause other problems like starvation, public safety risks, accident or death.

To be sure, Aristotle assigns an important role to the development of character through habituation.

It has never been as painstaking as this habituation process.

There's no gradual habituation to the danger zones, only dangerous lunges into the unknown or nothing.